Werner Kempf

Werner Kempf (9 March 1886-9 January 1964) was a General der Panzertruppe of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Werner Kempf was born on 9 March 1886 in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, German Empire. He joined the Imperial German Army in 1905, and he served in the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht after World War I. In January 1939, he was promoted to Generalmajor, and he commanded a panzer division during the invasion of Poland. From 1939 to 1940, he led the 6th Panzer Division during the Battle of France, and he was promoted to General der Panzertruppe in January 1941 in preparation for Operation Barbarossa. His panzer group in Army Group South fought at Uman and Kharkov before penetrating up to Kursk, and he took command of the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps on 5 May 1942. He fought at the Battle of Kursk, and he served as supreme commander of the Wehrmacht in the Baltics from May to September 1944. He then moved to the leadership reserve and was captured in May 1945, and Kempf was released in 1947. He died in Bad Harzburg, Lower Saxony, West Germany on 9 January 1964.